Though the rings appear solid from afar, they’re actually a dynamic, rotating system of icy debris. One theory suggests they ...

The space around Uranus just got a bit more crowded.Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

Update for Sept. 20: This story was updated after ESA released another image of Earth and the moon as seen by JUICE's JANUS scientific camera, which was designed to take high-resolution photos of ...

Good news everybody, at the start of next week, the world is going to have an excellent view of Uranus (grow up) as it makes its closest approach to Earth this year. On November 13, people will be ...

Uranus emits more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies report — a discovery that contradicts findings from the venerable Voyager spacecraft. When Voyager 2 sped past Uranus on January 24, ...

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — Sept. 3, 2025 — A team led by the Southwest Research Institute and including University of Idaho’s Matthew Hedman, a professor of physics, discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown Uranus' upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, with no clear ...

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